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What are your favorite slot skills?

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I find it real hard to give up shadow refuge, shadowstep, and signet of shadows for any build. Refuge is just such a great tool for ressing people, getting out of bad situations, and laying down a great combo field. Shadowstep is just about the best escape tool you could ask for, clears up your condition removal and stun breaker requirements, and is just nice for mobility in general. And I feel slow as molasses without signet of shadows, plus the blind can be nice. I’ll switch out signet of shadows for smoke screen in dungeons and other specific situations though.

Survivability vs Damage, where's the trade?

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I use knight’s rings, valkyrie earrings, and the 44k karma power/toughness/vitality helm and chestpiece. Everything else is berserker. I don’t really feel like I have major survivability issues. Most of my survivability comes from black powder and stealth from D/P, range from the shortbow, hide in shadows, shadow refuge, shadowstep, and the shadow arts/acrobatics trait lines. Damage is still quite good. It’s not on the level of a glass cannon warrior, but what is? And even playing primarily melee, I tend to be the least likely to die in most situations. Especially WvW – dying there is nearly impossible without getting hit by a lag spike.

Charr size and weapon grip.

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So who else set their Charr’s height to around the middle, expecting to be average, only to find that you’re actually a tiny little babyman? In 80 levels I’m not sure I’ve seen a single Charr NPC that isn’t way taller than I am. Seems a little misleading, I dunno. Here’s hoping they add character recustomization in the near future. Future Charr players – be warned.

Also, when you run forward, your character grips his weapon by the very end which looks kind of silly. The hall of monuments daggers look particularly bad, as you hold them by the blade.
Normal stance: http://i.imgur.com/GWTDP.jpg
Running forward: http://i.imgur.com/lHs4x.jpg

Should titles be more noticeable?

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Seems fine as-is to me. No need to clutter everything with titles.

View distance of players

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Yeah, it’s a huge bummer when I’m sitting in Lion’s Arch and people fade into and out of existence 10 feet away. I wish there were a setting for this or something.

Flame on!

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Having the #2 skill actually land and not get obstructed for no reason is a cause for celebration.

Saving pet names

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90% of the ranger pets I see people walking around with are still using the default Juvenile name, and I wonder if it’s because they’re clueless or if it’s because of this issue.

Swearing in private?

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So if I don’t like somebody in my exclusively adult guild, I can simply report them as soon as they inevitably swear and have them kicked out of the game for over a week? Or if I just feel like being a massive jerk to some random guy for no reason because trolling is just so great and all the rage or something?

Fantastic. This couldn’t possibly go wrong.

Heritage heavy armor shoulder issue

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Not a huge deal, but I may as well mention it. Viewing the heavy heritage shoulderpads from underneath makes them partially invisible, which is extremely apparent at all times at least on a Norn male character. Like so:
http://i.imgur.com/Aigeo.jpg

It kind of ruins them.